: the worst is not,

So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”

--- King Lear  IV, i, 27

如果我們能鎮定地說「這是最糟糕的」時，

還不算最糟糕。

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;

Filths savour but themselves.

--- King Lear  IV, ii, 38

惡人視智慧與善良如敝屣；

下流的人只玩味下流的事。

Tigers, not daughters,

--- King Lear  IV, ii, 39

是老虎，不是女兒，

              It is the stars,

The stars above us, govern our conditions,

--- King Lear  IV, iii, 34

是星辰，

頭上的星辰，支配我們的本性，

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,

--- King Lear  IV, iv, 12

休息是我們的天然保姆，

Gloucester:               Is’t not the king?

King Lear: Ay, every inch a king!

--- King Lear  IV, vi, 110

葛洛賽斯特：       這不是國王嗎？

李爾王：是的，不折不扣的國王！

When we are born, we cry that we are come

To this great stage of fools.

--- King Lear  IV, vi, 187

當我們被生下，發現我們來到這個滿是傻瓜的大舞臺，

所以放聲大哭。

            Mine enemy’s dog,

Though he had bit me, should have stood that night

Against my fire,

--- King Lear  IV, vii, 36

我仇敵的狗，

雖然它曾經咬過我，那樣的夜晚，

我也要讓它進來 待在我的壁爐前，

            Men must endure

Their going hence even as their coming hither.

        --- King Lear  V, ii, 9

人之死和生

都得聽天由命。

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices

Make instruments to plague us:

--- King Lear  V, iii, 172

上天是公平的，當初我們尋歡犯下的罪孽

成了懲罰我們的工具：

The wheel is come full circle,

--- King Lear  V, iii, 176

命運之輪如今轉滿一圈，

              Her voice was ever soft,

Gentle, and low, an cxcellent thing in woman.

--- King Lear  V, iii, 274

她向來輕聲

細語，是女人家氣質的好樣。

Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,

And thou no breath at all?

        --- King Lear  V, iii, 307

為甚麼一條狗、一匹馬、一隻老鼠都有生命，

而你完全沒氣息？